"If we look at your mind as a garbage bin, thoughts are like the smells that emanate. Do not understand this analogy as negative. A garbage bin is not useless; a garbage bin is very useful. Your house can do without a television and a telephone, but it cannot do without a garbage bin. If you use it when you want, if you open it and shut it when you want, it is a wonderful device. Without it, your whole house would become filthy. But if you decide to live in it, it is a horrible thing."[except from "Can We Remove Thoughts From the Mind?" blog post by Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev, http://timesofindia.speakingtree.in/spiritual-blogs/masters/meditation/can-we-remove-thoughts-from-the-mind ]